Iron Angel

Iron Angel participated in the first wave of Teutonic thrash metal bands -- a bustling musical community that also gave rise to such famed outfits as Kreator, Destruction, Sodom, Helloween, Running Wild, and many more, and arguably represented the largest concentration of bands exploiting this new genre outside the much vaunted San Francisco Bay Area. Born in 1983 from the ashes of an earlier Hamburg-based band named Metal Gods, Iron Angel consisted of vocalist Dirk Schroder, guitarists Peter Wittke and Sven Struven, bassist Thorsten Lohmann, and drummer Mike Mattes, and recor...